Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Both his poetry and his prose reveal a nature never quite integnated into wholeness of structure, into harmony with itself. His writing, at its best, is noble and delightful, full of human charm, but it is difficult for him to master a certain waywardness and to sustain any note steadily. This temperamental flaw does not affect the winsomeness of his letters, unless to add to it. It is lost to view, often, in the sincerity and pathos of his lyrics, but it is felt in most of his longer efforts in prose, and accounts for a certain dissatisfaction which many...
...political satire, such as the two series of Bigelow Papers, he had a theme and a method precisely suited to his temperament. No American has approached Lowell's success in this difficult genre: the swift transitions from rural Yankee humor to splendid scorn of evil and to noblest idealism reveal the full powers of one of our most gifted...
...soil. Nature lovers like to point out the freshness and delicacy of his reaction to the New England scene. Wit and humor and wisdom made him one of the best talkers of his generation. These qualities pervade his essays and his letters, and the latter in particular reveal those ardons and fidelities of friendship which men like Emerson and Thoreau longed after without ever quite experiencing. Lowell's cosmopolitan reputation, which was greatly enhanced in the last decade of his life, seemed to his old associates of the Saturday Club only a fit recognition of the learning, wit, and fine...
...opportunity. Many of us have grown up in a certain political and social atmosphere and our minds have been limited by false prejudices, Direct contact, however, with new points of view through the medium of informal meetings would broaden our outlook and give our true natures the chance to reveal themselves...
...tell you the commonest events of my life. I doubt whether that will be possible, for I have chosen a 75 attacking battery, but I shall keep a moment-to-moment journals for you and for others to whom I am not afraid to reveal myself. If I get through safely we'll laugh over it--and if I pass out, it will be sent...